People across the continent can help make bird-watching history on February 20, 21, and 22 by participating in the first-ever BirdSource Great '98 Backyard Bird Count, cosponsored by the Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society.
Christopher W. Clark, the engineer-biologist who heads the Bioacoustics Research Program at Cornell, has been named to the newly established Imogene Powers Johnson Senior Scientist chair at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.
Almost the entire permanent collection -- more than 27,000 objects -- of Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art will be made available for viewing on the World Wide Web over the next two years.
The National Science Foundation announced Jan. 19 the formation of the Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems, a partnership among New York University, Cornell University, Polytechnic University of New York and the University of Southern California. In forming the institute, the NSF is providing a five-year, $5 million grant to fund the effort.
Vicki Caron, associate professor of history at Cornell, has been named the Diann G. and Thomas A. Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, effective Feb. 1, 1998.
The Cornell Board of Trustees, at its meeting in New York City Saturday, Jan. 24, approved a 1998-99 budget that calls for a 4.3 percent tuition increase for the endowed colleges.
Cornell President Hunter R. Rawlings announced today a series of administrative changes designed to strengthen the primacy of the academic mission of the university and streamline its central reporting structures.
Nimat Hafez Barazangi, Ph.D. '88, a visiting research fellow in Cornell's Women's Studies Program, with a focus on self-identity and Muslim women's Islamic higher learning, will be one of the guests at a special reception to be hosted by the first lady at the White House Jan. 29.
An address by Jackson Katz, founder and director of MVP Strategies Inc., an organization that provides gender violence prevention training and materials to the U.S. military services, colleges, high schools, law enforcement agencies, community organizations and corporations, will highlight activities during Health Awareness Week on the Cornell.
Prestige and worldwide attention, in addition to a desire to increase sales, may be a chief reason to advertise during the Super Bowl, according to a Cornell professor. Douglas M. Stayman, associate professor of marketing at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management.
An award-winning playwright, a psychologist interested in memory who helped found the discipline of cognitive psychology and an authority on elephant and whale communication are among the guest speakers in a Monday afternoon lecture series on memory and creativity to be offered this spring at Cornell.
Following the recommendation of the American College Health Association, Cornell University Health Services now provides the meningococcal vaccine to students who want to be vaccinated against the disease.
